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Do you call it April Fools’ Day, April Noddy Day or April Gowkin’ Day? Is the season before winter the Autumn, the Fall or the Backend? When you’re out of breath, do you pant, …

This volume gathers the last ten years worth of published articles on creole languages and their origins by John H. McWhorter, a unique and often controversial scholar in the …

The Handbook of Dialectology provides an authoritative, up-to-date and unusually broad account of the study of dialect, in one volume. Each chapter reviews essential research, and …

As the title suggests, this collection explores some of the many facets of the language question as experienced by Africans today. This language question in Africa involves, in one …

Spanish is one of the most widely-spoken languages in the world, and there is extensive lexical variation between its numerous dialects. This book, the first of its kind, focuses …

The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle La?amon’s Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked …

This book describes many different and useful ways of understanding personal relationships from a dialectical perspective. It is written for scholars in higher education, both …

Im vorliegenden Band werden die Voraussetzungen, Mechanismen und Ergebnisse sprachlicher Variation und Vielfalt vorgestellt und diskutiert. Dies beginnt bei sprachlichen und …

Here is a feast of words that will whet the appetite of food and word lovers everywhere. William Grimes, former restaurant critic for The New York Times, covers everything from …

This work is based on an investigation of language acquisition process, particularly in regard to syntax, among Mauritian children learning to speak Mauritian Creole as their first …